Hi Maruan, Any update on this ?
On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 10:05 PM, Maruan Sahyoun <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Ankur, > > unfortunately there are some issues with rendering these files. It needs > some further analysis to find out why that happens. > > BR > Maruan Sahyoun > > Am 06.06.2013 um 17:05 schrieb Ankur Tripathi <[email protected]>: > > > Maruan, > > > > I had added pdf's to dropbox you can download it from here > > https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ruwz0l5hya2l4tp/9-zLVv96uw > > > > Let me know if you cannot access this link. > > > > > > On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 8:22 PM, Maruan Sahyoun <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > >> Hi Ankur, > >> > >> due to limitations of the mailing list the attachment didn't make it - > >> could you upload to a public site? > >> > >> BR > >> Maruan > >> > >> Am 06.06.2013 um 15:57 schrieb Ankur Tripathi <[email protected]>: > >> > >>> Hi Maruan, > >>> > >>> I have successfully converted pdf to images using pdfbox. However there > >> are couple of attached pdf which does not shows up filled in details. > >>> > >>> In my use case i need to merge different pdf's and than convert to > >> series of images. Since these pdf are not converted to image properly i > >> would like to avoid merge or fix image generation. Can you please point > me > >> to right direction. > >>> > >>> Converting this pdf with imagemagick works fine but i would like to > >> avoid os level tool. > >>> > >>> Really appreciate your help > >>> > >>> Thanks > >>> -Ankur Tripathi > >>> > >>> > >>> On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Maruan Sahyoun <[email protected] > > > >> wrote: > >>>> Hi, > >>>> > >>>> the question if a PDF can be rendered successfully is not dependent on > >> the fact that it's a PDF/A file. In general PDFBox does a good job in > >> converting a PDF to image and it supports PDF/A as well as not PDF/A > >> compliant files. There are some limitations though which may or may not > >> apply to you. > >>>> > >>>> - there are limitations in PDFs render mode i.e. not all possible > >> render modes are supported > >>>> - there are limitations in PDFs shading i.e. not all shadings are > >> supported > >>>> - font rendering is dependent on awt i.e. PDFBox generates a font from > >> embedded font which is passed to awt. This works in most but not all > cases. > >>>> - always test if e.g. Adobe Reader can display the file > >>>> …. > >>>> > >>>> If while rendering PDFBox hit's an (yet) unsupported feature it will > be > >> reported. If you come across such a limitation please log an enhancement > >> request in Jira (you should search first if someone else already had a > >> similar issue and add to that) so we can look into removing the > limitation. > >> Of course if you are able to contribute that's even better. > >>>> > >>>> For PDF/A (PDF/A-1b) PDFBox passes several test suites. So if you > think > >> you have a valid PDF/A file and PDFBox complains we are very interested > in > >> finding out why this is the case. But it's very likely that your file > might > >> not be PDF/A-1b compliant. > >>>> > >>>> If you have specific questions/issues please feel free to ask. > >>>> > >>>> Bottom line - I think PDFBox will help you doing the conversion. Your > >> milage will vary dependent on the files content. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> BR > >>>> Maruan Sahyoun > >>>> > >>>> Am 06.06.2013 um 12:12 schrieb Ankur Tripathi <[email protected] > >: > >>>> > >>>>> Hi, > >>>>> > >>>>> I have a use case in my project where i want to convert every page of > >> pdf > >>>>> to image. I have tried different opensource libraries like > >> pdfrenderere, > >>>>> open source version of jpedal etc but with each of them we have > >> problems > >>>>> with PDF/A pdf's. Before trying pdfbox i would like to know that if > >> support > >>>>> for embedded font and pdf/a is available in pdfbox api. If not is > >> there any > >>>>> way to identify if a particular pdf can not be converted to image, I > >>>>> already tried > http://pdfbox.apache.org/cookbook/pdfavalidation.htmlto > >>>>> validate uploaded pdf's but it fails for all of our pdfs but we are > >> able to > >>>>> convert them into image properly. There are only few formed filled > pdf > >>>>> which have not been converted to image properly. > >>>>> > >>>>> Thanks for help. > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> Thanks > >>>>> -Ankur Tripathi > >>> > >> > >
